不像话 meaning in English

bùxiànghuà

unreasonable; shocking

HSK 7-9adjectiveTraditional 不像話25 strokes

Meaning of 不像话

Definitions from CC-CEDICT.

bùxiànghuà
  1. unreasonable
  2. shocking
  3. outrageous

不像话 in example sentences

Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.

这zhè太tài不bù像xiàng话huà。
It doesn't look like anything.

Stroke order for each character

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不 bù · no · 4 strokes

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像 xiàng · to resemble · 13 strokes

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话 huà · dialect · 8 strokes

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Related words

Words that share a character with 不像话.

对不起duìbuqǐI'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon; to let (sb) down; to disappoint
是不是shì bu shìis or is not (used to form yes-no questions)
不用bùyòngneed not
电话diànhuàtelephone; phone call
说话shuōhuàto speak; to say
打电话dǎ diànhuàto make a telephone call
不大bù dànot very (clear, far away etc); not too; not often; infrequently
不对bùduìincorrect; wrong
不客气bù kèqìyou're welcome; don't mention it
不要bùyàodon't!; must not
的话dehuàif (coming after a conditional clause)
不过bùguòonly; merely

Questions about 不像话

What does 不像话 mean?

不像话 (bùxiànghuà) means "unreasonable; shocking" and is used as a adjective.

How do you write 不像话?

不像话 is made of 3 characters: 不 (4 strokes), 像 (13 strokes), 话 (8 strokes). That is 25 strokes in total.

Is 不像话 an HSK word?

Yes. 不像话 is on the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.

How is 不像话 written in traditional Chinese?

In traditional characters, 不像话 is written 不像話.